Present
Ada blinked with bleary eyes. She spent a few seconds trying to place what woke her up. Then she quickly remembered that she was not, in fact in her own bed, but on a bus. Then the memories of the past week flooded back into her mind.
She sat forward and pressed the heels of her hands to her eyes as she fought against a sob. Her heart broke all over again as she remembered Etienne turning on her, and then the hell she went through fleeing from him. Just when she had realized her feelings for him, he had simultaneously showed what his feelings ultimately meant.
And what the consequences for her would have meant if she had stayed after all.
She swallowed bile as she thought how close she had come to giving in to her heart and choosing to stay with him. If she had given up her
